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Battle Order 204 by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Military
'Bomb doors open!' It was the call that haunted airmen's dreams. This is the story of an ordinary young Australian whose ambition to fly took him halfway round the globe during World War II - and the fateful mission when his plane was hit three times. 'Battle Order 204 is about the quality of courage... ...Show more
Chelonia Green, Champion of Turtles by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Children's Fiction
There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move!..Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with t ...Show more
Cockawun & Cockatoo by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Children's Fiction
Two fledgling suphur-crested cockatoos are rescued by Arthur's uncle, from the building site of the first Parliament House in Canberra. Arthur grows up with these birds, caring for them when he and his family move from the city up to a farm in the mountains. Cockatoo soon flies away with her own kind, b ...Show more
First Friend (Aussie Nibbles) by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Loved by kids, parents and teachers, these engaging stories are ready to delight a whole new audience of emerging independent readers aged 6-8 years.Kerry is a little bewildered by how different things are on her first day at a new school. But she soon finds old friends in her favourite books in the sch ...Show more
For The Love of Nature - E E Gostel by MATTINGLEY, CHRISTOBEL
Category: Art
Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866-1944) began his 50-year-long teaching career at the age of 15. He was a keen naturalist and took every opportunity to study the local plants and birds. Gostelow would liven up his blackboards with captivating chalk drawings of birds and flowers. Gostelow's watercolours of ...Show more
Forward March (HB) by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Education
On Anzac Day in Australia, people of all ages and nationalities gather at war memorials for the dawn service and line city streets for the march. On this national day of mourning and commemoration, they honour the men and women who returned from war and the sons, fathers, grandfathers and good mates who ...Show more
Ginger: Aussie Bites by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Aussie Bites S.
Hugh's rabbit is the best pet Hugh has ever had. When Hugh's family go on holiday to the country, Ginger and the other pet rabbits go too. But Hugh will discover that country life can be harsh and that keeping a pet involves learning some difficult lessons.
King of the Wilderness: the Life of Deny King by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Biography
Deny King was a pioneer and environmentalist who lived with his family in the remote and rugged south-west of Tasmania, and this biography will fascinate readers.
Maralinga's Long Shadow: Yvonne's Story by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Non-Fiction
The powerful story of Yvonne Edwards, artist and community leader, who lived on or near the Maralinga lands, and the cost of the fall-out for herself and her family from the British nuclear tests in the 1950s...
My Father's Islands: Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Non-Fiction
It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of u ...Show more
No Gun for Asmir by Christobel Mattingley
Category: Young Adult | Series: Puffin Bks.
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.